After receiving at least US$20 billion in aid for reconstruction and development over the past 60 years, Haiti has been … Haiti, and who are totally self-interested - Haiti's fatal flaw. Donors can go far to improve aid effectiveness, but Haiti …

governments, multilateral agencies, and development NGOs, although critics continue to question its premises and results. This … paper reviews how the development agencies of Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and the Republic of Korea, as well as the Asian … Development Bank, have sought to promote gender equality through their activities, and considers lessons that can be drawn from …

'traditional' donors and a new focus on selectivity in aid disbursement, as well as 'new' donors and South-South co … provision. This paper assesses the past effectiveness of aid, comments on new aid donors and outlines some of the key arguments …

, foreign development agencies provided extensive support and billions of dollars in aid - for which institutional development … Paris principles were utilized in Southern Sudan underscores the limits of the prevailing orthodox approach to development …

donors and national bureaucrats. It was a struggle over ideas as well as resources, with this coalition having to overcome …

Official Development Assistance (ODA) is subject to a pro-cyclical trend in aid which falls when donors encounter recession. We … attempt to answer the question of whether and how donors adjust aid budgets in response to various macroeconomic shocks. The …

This paper critically reviews evidence on "thinking and working politically" in development. Scholars and practitioners … have increasingly recognised that development is fundamentally political, and efforts are underway to develop more … consider evidence in three areas - political context, sector and organization - and provide guidance on where to focus next …

development co-operation. Provider countries often shy away from taking onboard recipient countries' development priorities …' instead of 'country ownership' would entail-from conceptualization to delivery of a foreign aid-supported development … intervention. The findings are pertinent to the ongoing debates concerning the relevance and application of 'development …

growth: tourism, horticulture and information technology-enabled services. Sector-specific constraints are identified … including beach erosion and hotel quality (tourism), access to land (horticulture), and lack of competition and skilled labour … a stronger dialogue with the private sector. …

The South African services sector is large and growing. This coupled with declining employment shares in manufacturing … patterns in services reveal a segmentation that is characterized by high-productivity, high-wage services, low …-productivity, low-wage services, and government services. There has been sustained growth in services exports in the post-1994 period …